Valentine Heart Treat Cakes (Print Version)
# Ingredients:
→ Cake
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Sifted homegrown soft white wheat (2½ cups)
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Baking powder (1½ teaspoons)
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Baking soda (1 teaspoon)
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Kosher salt (¾ teaspoon)
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Maple or standard sugar (1½ cups)
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Large eggs (3)
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Buttermilk (¾ cup)
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Soft unsalted butter (½ cup)
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Avocado oil (¼ cup)
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Plain Greek yogurt (¼ cup)
→ Icing
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Soft unsalted butter (½ cup)
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Powdered sugar (1½ cups)
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Real vanilla extract (½ teaspoon)
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Milk (2-3 tablespoons)
→ Coating
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White chocolate (14 ounces)
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Coconut oil (3 tablespoons)
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Natural food coloring (3-4 drops)
→ Strawberry Powder Topping
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Powdered sugar (¼ cup)
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Ground freeze-dried strawberries (⅛ cup)
# Instructions:
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Warm your oven to 350°F. Grind and sift wheat flour and put bran aside. Put parchment on a big baking tray (13x18) or two smaller ones.
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Mix butter, avocado oil, and sugar in a stand mixer until puffy. Add eggs and vanilla and beat for 2 minutes till it looks airy. Stir in yogurt until it's all mixed up.
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Put dry stuff together in another bowl. Add flour mix and buttermilk to your batter bit by bit, going back and forth, but start and finish with flour. Spread in your pan and bake for about 17-20 minutes.
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Let it cool down. Then cut heart shapes with a 3-inch cutter while the cake's still in the pan. Lift hearts out carefully with a flat tool. Make them thinner if they're too thick.
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Whip butter, powdered sugar, milk, and vanilla until it's smooth enough to pipe. Put filling on half the hearts and top with the others to make sandwiches.
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Stick your heart sandwiches in the freezer for an hour. Melt white chocolate with coconut oil in the microwave, a few seconds at a time. Save ¼ cup for drizzling later. Mix food coloring into the rest.
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Dunk the frozen hearts in the colored chocolate using a fork. You can either sprinkle strawberry powder on top before it hardens or drizzle white chocolate after it sets.
# Notes:
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Home-milled flour gives extra nutrients and better taste
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Wholesome version of store-bought snack cakes
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You'll end up with about 10 finished heart treats